On March 31, 2022, USA Weightlifting (USAW) shared a press release that announced Phil Andrews' pending resignation as USAW's Chief Executive Officer effective July 15, 2022. Andrews first joined USAW in ... Continue Reading
2022 CrossFit Quarterfinals Results — Toomey and Medeiros Win Worldwide
The 2022 CrossFit Quarterfinals kicked off on March 24, 2022, and featured the top 10 percent of athletes from each continent on the 2022 CrossFit Open leaderboard. Given that only the top 120 individual ... Continue Reading
How To Watch the 2022 Europe’s Strongest Man Contest
The 2022 Europe's Strongest Man (ESM) contest is scheduled for April 2, 2022, at the First Direct Arena in Leeds, England. The competition will see 13 of Europe's most prominent strongmen attempt to ... Continue Reading
Bodybuilder Nick Walker Shares His High-Intensity Back Workout Focused On Lats
Bodybuilder Nick Walker is capitalizing on every workout during the offseason leading up to the 2022 Olympia scheduled for Dec. 16-18, 2022, in Las Vegas, NV. Each workout is performed with high intensity ... Continue Reading
JF Caron On His Career: “I Think Strongman Is Done”
Competitive strongman contests may have seen the last of nine-time Canada's Strongest Man JF Caron. Fellow strongman Laurence Shahlaei interviewed the 2022 Força Bruta champion on Shahlaei's YouTube ... Continue Reading
2022 Australia’s Strongest Man and Woman Results — Jordan Osborne & Alirene Clair Victorious
On March 27, 2022, the strongest men and women in Australia convened in Melbourne to battle it out across six events to determine who is the strongest Australian. Ultimately, Jordan Osborne ascended to the ... Continue Reading
Kyle Kirvay Makes 310.7-Kilogram (685-Pound) Raw Squat For Five Reps Look Easy
Kyle Kirvay's presence is felt in the powerlifting and bodybuilding spheres with his consistently heavy monster lifts in competition and in the gym. On March 27, 2022, the IFBB Pro bodybuilder posted a ... Continue Reading
Tobias Lautwein and Mirjam Von Rohr Win 2022 HYROX European Championships
The 2022 HYROX European Championships saw Tobias Lautwein and Mirjam Von Rohr emerge victoriously in the Elite Men's and Elite Women's divisions, respectively. On March 26, 2022, the contest occurred at ... Continue Reading
Dr. Jim Stoppani on How To Train To Promote the Most Muscle Growth
The sixth episode of Generation Iron and BarBend's interview series with exercise physiologist and JYM Supplements founder Dr. Jim Stoppani aired on March 28, 2022. Many of the previous episodes thus far ... Continue Reading
Danny Grigsby (125KG) Scores Powerlifting’s First Ever 1000-Plus Pound Raw Deadlift In a Full Power Meet
History was made at the United States Powerlifting Association (USPA) Virginia Beach Classic 2 on March 26, 2022. Powerlifter Danny Grigsby, competing in the raw 125-kilogram weight class, became the first ... Continue Reading
Breon Ansley Is Leaving the Classic Physique Division Due to the Weight Cap
Bobybuilder Breon Ansley shook the bodybuilding community with his March 19, 2022 announcement on his Instagram page that 2022 will be his last year competing in the Classic Physique division. He went ... Continue Reading
A Look Back At Powerlifter Tiffany Chapon’s (47KG) Unofficial World Record Total of 418 Kilograms
The 2022 Fédération Française de Force (FFForce) French Nationals took place on March 19, 2022, in Albi, France. French powerlifter Tiffany Chapon competed in the 47-kilogram weight class at a bodyweight ... Continue Reading
Legendary Powerlifter and Founder of Westside Barbell Louie Simmons Dies at 74 Years Old
Louie Simmons, legendary powerlifter, coach, founder of Westside Barbell, inventor, and the man credited as the mastermind behind conjugate training has reportedly died at the age of 74. At the time of ... Continue Reading
Chris Van der Linde Sets New African Deadlift Record of 455 Kilograms (1,003.1 Pounds)
On Mar. 19th, 2022, strongman Chris Van der Linde set a new African deadlift record by pulling a monster 455 kilograms (1,003.1 pounds). He became the first South African to deadlift over 1,000 pounds. The ... Continue Reading
Watch Bodybuilder Nick Walker Train Hamstrings During His Offseason
2021 Arnold Classic champion Nick Walker is training in the offseason with the goal of maximizing his potential in his sophomore appearance on the Mr. Olympia stage in Las Vegas, NV on Dec. 16-18, 2022. ... Continue Reading
2022 World’s Strongest Man Contest To Feature First-Ever Fan Festival
The 2022 World's Strongest Man (WSM) competition is scheduled from May 24-29, 2022, in Sacramento, CA — the second of three years in that city. In 2021, Tom Stoltman won his first WSM title in front of a ... Continue Reading
Watch Flex Lewis and Rafael Brandão Train Chest Together at the Dragon’s Lair Gym
IFBB Pro League Men’s Open bodybuilder and 2021 Romania Muscle Fest Pro winner Rafael Brandão returned to Las Vegas, NV to train with seven-time Olympia 212 champion James “Flex” Lewis in ... Continue Reading
Jamal Browner (110KG) Grinds Through a Conventional Deadlift PR of 432.5 Kilograms (953.5 Pounds)
Jamal Browner's pulling strength does not appear to have a limit. It seems as though every time Browner steps into a gym after having recently hit a deadlift PR, he loads even more weight on a barbell and ... Continue Reading
2022 World’s Strongest Man Prep — Brian Shaw Trains High-Volume Deadlifts With Jerry Pritchett
The 2022 World's Strongest Man (WSM) contest is scheduled for May 24-29, 2022, in Sacramento, CA. Thirty of the world's top strongmen will compete for the most coveted title in the sport. One of those ... Continue Reading
How Many Calories Do You Need Post-Workout? (Brought to You by Ample)
An age-old mystery of fitness — when and how much does one eat after a training session? Are all the potential gains lost if the body is not refueled within a particular window of time post-workout? Will ... Continue Reading
2016 Olympic Champion Weightlifter Nijat Rahimov Banned for 8 Years
On Mar. 22, 2022, the Anti-Doping Division of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), a Swiss-based international athletic regulatory body, issued a press release stating that Kazakh weightlifter ... Continue Reading
Bodybuilder Breon Ansley Says 2022 Will Be His Last Year In the Classic Physique Division
On March 19, 2022, two-time Classic Physique Olympia champion Breon Ansley took to his Instagram page to share a physique update with natural light. Natural light being absent shadows adding detail and ... Continue Reading
Dr. Jim Stoppani On Why High-Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) Burns More Fat
Episode five of Generation Iron and BarBend's interview series with exercise physiologist Dr. Jim Stoppani aired on March 18, 2022. So far, Stoppani's conversation with Vlad Yudin has ... Continue Reading
Hafthor Björnsson Defeats Eddie Hall by Unanimous Decision — Fight Results & Round-By-Round Recap
On Mar. 19, 2022, the highly-anticipated "Heaviest Boxing Match in History" between 2017 World's Strongest Man (WSM) champion Eddie "The Beast" Hall and 2018 WSM champion Hafthor "The Mountain" Björnsson ... Continue Reading